Something I noticed about Mason Jars

So, this past weekend, FI and I went on a brewery tour in our area for their one year anniversary. You go in and for $10, you get a pint glass or a mason jar with 5 drink tickets, or for $12 you got the anniversary glass or a tulip glass with the tickets. The entire time we were there (several hours), I saw at least 3/4 of the women with mason jars and less than 1/4 of men with them. The majority of men I saw with a mason jar were accompanied by a woman with a jar. I found this amusing. They’re in no way ideal for beer drinking, but they’ve become so popular that a lot of the women want them. My roomate and her husband went with us on a separate occasion and she had him get a mason jar too. I just thought I’d share my observation. I’ve seen a few posts asking how people received their mason jar glass. From what I witnessed, many women love them. Men with women who love them tolerate them. Everyone else could care less/just want a normal glass.

@HonoraryNerd: My husband is the one obsessed with mason jars. We store bulk dry goods in them, he drinks water or smoothies out of the big ones and wine out of the small ones and we store leftovers in the fridge in them. Basically our kitchen is one big mason jar collection.

@HonoraryNerd: I would have thought it would have been the same in Dallas. But I was thinking it was a southern thing when it is really more a famr thing. I did some research and asked a few family memebers and that is where it comes from. It is because when mama would can the things daddy brought in from the garden she had tons of them around and it was just easy to grap one and fill it with tea or water. Then her and her friends would share their favorite receipe for jams and jellies, etc. and of course pass more jars around. It also was a good way to store “shine” back in the day.

I am one of those people who grew up with tons of Mason jars because my mom and grandma canned stuff. We never really used the to drink from. But we did and still do use them to store all sorts of different things. Not just food, but nails, buttons, whatever. I’m using Mason jars in my centerpieces because I have a ton of them just sitting around, but I’m using regular glasses to drink from.

I think it’s a regional thing. Where I live, they’re not common at all.

However, my fiance loves them–because they remind him of home (he’s from the Midwest). His family owns a farm out there and his grandma used to make homemade jam, so mason jars were always around. Plus, his family also used the mason jars with handles as drinking glasses. We mentioned it to his family that we were using them, and most of his family LOVED the idea (men and women). It’s a nod to his family.

Mason jars are super useful, but I don’t understand buying them from an event like the brewery tour. They don’t have handles. They don’t have lids. You’re just buying a jar to drink from a jar. That’s the part I don’t understand.